ART OSAKA 2025 : Axl Le

Digital Eden is a multimedia art film that blends video game design, artificial intelligence, and 3D animation, and it is the second installment in a trilogy critiquing contemporary digital technology developments.

The film portrays "Digital Eden," initially envisioned as a decentralized utopian community flourishing under the impetus of modern technology. However, this dream quickly disintegrates following the bursting of a speculative digital bubble, leaving behind a dystopian landscape rife with consumerism and illusory artifacts of desire. Amidst this collapsing environment, an AI drone named Eve, controlled by hackers, conducts final acts of digital archaeology and documentation.

The snake in the film symbolizes modern technology corporations, entities that shape and digitize human desire, meticulously integrating and upgrading it to perpetually stimulate consumption. Unlike the original Eden narrative, this digital reinterpretation does not feature singular Adam and Eve figures; instead, every individual embodies these archetypal roles, constantly enticed by the deceptive digital apples offered by technology. Once the digital apple is bitten, individuals become permanently ensnared within an algorithm-driven landscape, relentlessly exploited until all value is exhausted.

Ultimately, the film poses a fundamental question: Is a truly ideal digital utopia achievable? Or is every digital utopia inevitably destined to devolve into yet another spectacle controlled by algorithms and desire?